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David Proctor Accomplishments

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Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an African American minister, author and educator. He is known by some as a mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. but among students of Virginia Union University School of Theology (VUU SOT), he is probably best known as the former dean of the SOT and the fifth President of VUU. Dr. Proctor was was born on July 12, 1921 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was raised as a Baptist and attended a church founded by his great-grandfather. After initiating collegiate studies at Virginia State College and later enrolling in the U.S. Naval Apprentice School, he abandoned both efforts and ultimately graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Union University in 1942. During his tenure at VUU, Dr. Proctor was baptized and married a classmate, Bessie Tate. Following graduation from VUU, Dr. Proctor studied at the University of Pennsylvania but switched to the Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1945. Having decided to …show more content…

Proctor’s life, which abruptly ended in 1997 due to a heart attack, but my most useful take away from his life was his contributions to preaching. This assessment came after reading Dr. Proctor’s The Certain Sound of the Trumpet. Within the book, Dr. Proctor argues that a sermon must be like the sound of a trumpet in that the sermon must be clear, convincing and authoritative. Dr. Proctor viewed his book “as an effort to promote preaching that will introduce and sustain people in a fulfilling religious experience, a relationship with God that enhances every dimension of life, and a discipleship to Jesus...” I viewed the book as a straightforward description of Dr. Proctor’s dialectic method of sermon preparation, organization and delivery that could be useful not only for the seminary student but also for the hard working preacher, teacher, or evangelist who will never attend

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“The Gospel For Those Broken By The Church” by Dr. Rod Rosenbladt Rod Rosenbladt paints a fantastic picture in his presentation “The Gospel For Those Broken By The Church.” He discusses how the church can often push people away from the Gospel, and, by extension, God. He explains how pastors push people away from Christianity and why many of the “alumni of the Christian faith” are feeling how they do: why some of them feel angry, and why some others feel sad about the Christian faith. Rosenbladt’s presentation, in many ways, mirrors Paul's presentation of the Gospel in the first eight chapters of his letter to the Romans. In said letters, Paul explains how we are all God’s apostles, how we try to uphold the law, and even though we fail

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Firstly I will tackle his appearance or descriptive appearance. According to the article “Proctor seems to have been an enormous man, very large framed, with great force and energy”. In contrast to the book which only tells us

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He gave his life for his family name making sure that the people who are going to kill know not to say anything bad about his name. Proctors option of getting hung over telling everyone, which was a act of honor. It was a act of honor because he decided to get hung over letting the whole town know, and see what he had to do to keep his name good and not bad. Proctor did do some bad things, and did try and blame things on people which they did not do because

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John Proctor was a farmer who lived on the outskirts of the town Salem, Massachusetts. He was married to Elizabeth Proctor who had become very ill during the pregnancy

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Plus, Proctor’s third son is not baptized because Proctor will not “let Mr. Parris lay a hand upon my (Proctor’s) baby.” Proctor doesn’t see Parris as an honorable leader of the church, but that is clouding his participation in a religious practice, baptism. The final reason why Proctor’s religious knowledge and participation are clouded is because he believes Reverend Parris is greed because Parris was “the first minister ever did demand the deed to his house,” and he “preached nothing but golden candlesticks until he had them.” Once again, one who is Puritan needs to have faith in their religious leader, but Proctor can’t. As a result, he isn’t a devout

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For example, instead of listing challenges of the human life as “abortion, rich and poor gap, immigration, gay marriage, and war issues,” he opts to describe it as “the prevailing plague of abortion, the widening chasm between rich and poor, the callous hostility toward immigrant families, the unrelenting attempts to redefine marriage, the dehumanizing experiments on embryonic stem cells, the demeaning efforts to legalize assisted suicide, and the moral mire of war and terror that haunts our world.” By adding such adjectives to his topics that he wanted to list, he creates a tone that sounds all mighty and important. In creating this tone, he is able to wrap the readers around his finger as they continue to read about the ever so serious challenges. Continuing his tone, Bishop Brown then goes to quote a segment from the Bible, beginning, “Would that all the people of the LORD were prophets!...we are the fulfillment of this spiritual longing…a gospel that gives life to the weary and the

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There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God anymore” (1040). This displays Proctors actions of speaking for the town and being selfless by telling Parris what is wrong with the church so he could potentially change his ways and have a better church for the town. Proctor is selfless rather than selfish because by telling

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In Thomas Long’s The Witness of Preaching, he aims to urge the reader to become a reliable witness of the gospel by way of ample preparation before entering a pulpit. The text offers to the reader a deeper understanding of the ministry of preaching. A useful component of the text contains informative bits of information that make the reader aware of the lengthy but necessary preparation needed for an adequate explanation of the scripture. Of primary importance is the consideration of the congregation when a preacher is first approaching the text. This point is of vital importance as it signifies that the speaker is a member of the body of Christ and the congregation.

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Ed combats this view with the idea that the point of discipleship is not information, but Christ-like transformation. The second “broken view” presented is the fact that we try to program discipleship. Ed infers that discipleship is so much more than a six-week course, and people are looking for relationships more than discipleship classes. The third “broken view” is that we equate discipleship with our preaching. In fact, 56% of pastors surveyed believe their weekly sermon was the most important discipling ministry in the church.

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A daily routine corporate prayer, work and meditation on the Bible, spiritual reading was performed to draw near to God. Spiritual readings of the scripture were given more important. Preaching was treated as a main tool to enhance the spiritual life. He preached twice in a day. His sermon took the form of homilies in which biblical passages were interpreted anagogically to apply to the spiritual

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Eulogy of John Proctor Welcome friends, and thank you for coming today as we remember and honor my dearly departed husband, John Proctor. John was an straightforward, well built and hardworking Christian man, that is up until he died. John and I were the same as any Puritan couple in Salem, we grew up here and so did our parents and grandparents. When we were married, I was in love and I loved him throughout his life and I still love him now.

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Eulogy of John Proctor Welcome friends, and thank you for coming today as we remember my late husband, John Proctor. John was an honest, strong and hardworking Christian man right up until he died, and he would be happy to see you all here to celebrate his memory. For most of us, we do not fall in love with our spouses until well after we are married to them. We marry because our parents plan it sometimes, or there is a certain gain with the marriage, be it economic or moral. John and I appeared to be the same as any Puritan couple in Salem.

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A short critique - “The Reformed Pastor” by Richard Baxter Richard Baxter’s writings on the “The Reformed Pastor” is a wake up call to every shepherd of the flocks to examine their soul’s condition and their flocks as well. So, the minister, coming into ministry with much infirmity, has before him a great responsibility and yet difficult office to undertake and to accomplish. Every minister’s success in accomplishing God ordained duties and responsibilities depends on the thoroughness of his examination of his own soul – “It is most necessary, therefore, that men of so much infirmity should take heed to themselves, and be careful in the oversight of their own souls.” While he takes care of his own soul diligently, the same way he needs to care for his flocks welfare – soul’s betterment. Richard Baxter’s writing had been a humble yet an authoritative call to reform ministers’ actions and live their lives as if the souls of his flock depend on his actions.

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If you have watched the movie that spread the message of the law of attraction to almost every corner of the planet “the secret” then you must be familiar with Bob Proctor, who played a very important part in the whole movie. Bob Proctor’s work has inspired me so much that it reflects in the ideas I hold, I keep writing articles about the universal laws and the eleven forgotten laws program by Bob Proctor has been one of the greatest source for me to understand these universal laws better. I must tell you that Bob has been in the industry of personal development for more than 50 years and one can tell by just watching him that he not only teaches these universal laws, but he actually lives it, he explains the complicated stuff in such a simple

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